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Chicago Shakespeare Theater 12 On the Boards 800 E. Grand on Navy Pier A selection of notable CST events, Chicago, Illinois 60611 plays and players 312.595.5600 www.chicagoshakes.com
©2016 16 Point of View Chicago Shakespeare Theater Director Gary Griffin discusses All rights reserved. his vision of King Charles III. artistic director, carl and marilynn thoma endowed chair: Barbara Gaines 25 Cast executive director: Criss Henderson
above: Robert Bathurst Playgoer's Guide and Kate Skinner in rehearsal; 26 photo by Liz Lauren
28 Profiles
40 From another perspective Scholar Stuart Sherman explores playwright Mike Barlett’s royal tapestry, weaving of past, present and future in King Charles III. Part of the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Inquiry and Exploration Series.
4 Winter 2016 | King Charles III Welcome
DEAR FRIENDS, Welcome to Chicago Shakespeare and our landmark 30th Anniversary Season. On the heels of Tug of War, Barbara’s distillation of six Shakespeare plays into two original dramas, comes today’s production of King Charles III. Mirroring the literary devices in Shakespeare’s histories, playwright Mike Bartlett artfully weaves the “future history” of the Royal Family after Queen Elizabeth II's death. A West End and Y
h Broadway hit, we are honored to present the Chicago premiere of King Charles III P
a under the deft direction of our Associate Artistic Director, Gary Griffin.
In his tenure at Chicago Shakespeare, Gary’s breadth of work includes award- winning direction of both musicals and Shakespeare, which may appear to some
hotog R a disparate pairing. But Gary's approach is harmonious: he has the wonderful ability to find the musicality of language in Shakespeare and the Shakespearean
co P complexity of musicals. We feel fortunate to count Gary Griffin as a member of our S
a artistic collective and to share with you, our audience, his twenty-third production at Chicago Shakespeare. ca R
From King Charles III to Shakespeare in Love, our 30th Season is a dynamic representation of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s relationship with our “resident” playwright. Throughout our history and into our future, we will continue to examine the canon through a multifaceted lens and to present new plays that are inspired by Shakespeare’s humanity. We will always be humbled and grateful for your steadfast loyalty, as your support fuels our work.
Here’s to our collective future! n
Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Steve Solomon Artistic Director Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors fftchicago.com Carl and Marilynn Thoma Endowed Chair Proud to be a partner with Chicago Shakespeare Theater
www.chicagoshakes.com 7 for making possible the world's largest and most comprehensive celebration of Shakespeare's enduring legacy. 1000 ARTISTS 850 EVENTS 120 LOCATIONS
LEAD SPONSORS CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER About CST
CST is a global theatrical force, known for vibrant productions that reflect Shakespeare’s genius for storytelling, language and empathy for the human condition. Throughout 2016, CST is spearheading the international arts and culture festival, Shakespeare 400 Chicago, a yearlong, citywide celebration of the playwright's 400-year legacy. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, CST is dedicated to creating extraordinary productions of classics, new works and family programming; to LEADERSHIP unlocking Shakespeare’s work for educators and students; and to serving as Chicago’s cultural ambassador through its World’s Stage Series. CST serves as a partner in literacy to Chicago Public Schools, working alongside English teachers LESSONS to help struggling readers connect with Shakespeare in the classroom. His words are brought to life on stage for 40,000 students from across the Midwest every FROM THE year. Each summer, 30,000 families and audience members of all ages welcome the free Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks tour into their neighborhoods across the far north, west and south sides of the city. Reflecting the global city it calls home, CST is the leading producer of international work in Chicago, and has toured its plays to Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Canada/North America and the Middle East. BARD CST is proud to take an active role in empowering the next generation of literate, engaged cultural champions and creative minds. The Theater’s tradition of excellence and civic leadership has been honored with numerous national and 400 YEARS ON, international awards, including the Regional Theatre Tony Award, three Laurence Olivier Awards and eighty-five Joseph Jefferson Awards. CST’s work with Chicago SHAKESPEARE Public School students and teachers was recognized by the White House in 2014 with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. Among its many STILL HAS A KNACK international engagements, CST participated in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2006 Complete Works Festival and was selected to represent North America at the FOR BUSINESS Globe to Globe festival as part of London’s 2012 Cultural Olympiad. n
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Steven J. Solomon* William R. Jentes* Richard W. Porter* Chair Jack L. Karpw John Rau Eric Q. Strickland* John P. Keller Nazneen Razi Treasurer Christie B. Kelly Ingrid Razny Richard A. Kent Lance Richards Frank D. Ballantine Barbara Malott Kizziah Glenn R. Richter* The unstable economic and political world of William Shakespeare Brit J. Bartter* Ted Langan Sheli Z. Rosenberg* Thomas L. Brown Chase Collins Levey John W. Rowe* was refl ected in some of his greatest plays. He explored the strengths Allan E. Bulley III Anna Livingston Robert Ryan Patrick R. Daley Renetta E. McCann Carole B. Segal and weaknesses of leaders in disruptive environments, and showed Brian W. Duwe Raymond F. McCaskey* Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Philip L. Engel Robert G. McLennan Sheila G. Talton in his business how to shape a wealth-creating, corporate, culture. Jeanne B. Ettelson Jess E. Merten Marilynn J. Thoma* Kevin Evanich Robert Moore Gayle R. Tilles Harve A. Ferrill Madhavan Nayar William J. Tomazin Read how he did it at www.shakespeareleadership.com Sonja H. Fischer Christopher O’Brien Donna Van Eekeren Richard J. Franke Dennis Olis* Priscilla A. (Pam) Walter* Barbara Gaines* Mark S. Ouweleen* Ray Whitacre C. Gary Gerst* Carleton D. Pearl Ava D. Youngblood M. Hill Hammock* Judith Pierpont Kathryn J. Hayley *denotes Executive Committee Paulita A. Pike members Criss Henderson* Stephanie Pope Stewart S. Hudnut win memoriam KING CHARLES III CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER On the Boards
IN THE BEHIND ON STAGE COMMUNITY COAST TO COAST THE SCENES
Chicago Shakespeare Theater and On September 24, Chicago Shakespeare 2016 has been a landmark year for CST- The remarkable history behind the Chicago Youth Shakespeare join hosted a panel discussion, Shakespeare commissioned work at theaters across upcoming production of The Book of forces to create Battle of the Bard, a in the Criminal Justice System, America: Sense and Sensibility made Joseph started after Richard Hollander’s high school Shakespeare slam uniting exploring how Shakespeare offers its West Coast debut at the Old Globe parents died unexpectedly. While teams from 40 public, private and incarcerated individuals much-needed Theatre in San Diego; Ride the Cyclone cleaning out their attic, he found a parochial schools from across the many opportunities for reflection and self- premieres in New York at the prestigious suitcase filled with letters in Polish and neighborhoods of our city and collar expression, emotional support and the MCC Theater—only the third musical to stamped with the Nazi swastika. Afraid counties. Each team is comprised of opportunity to cultivate self-esteem and be produced in the MCC's thirty-year of what he might discover, Hollander left four to eight students, coached by communication skills. The distinguished history; and the Q Brothers’ runaway the suitcase untouched for fifteen years. their teachers. The Battle of the Bard panel included: Itari Marta from Mexico’s hit, Othello: The Remix makes its off- When he finally opened the letters, community is fostered through Saturday Foro Shakespeare, world renowned for Broadway debut at the Westside Theatre. they told the story of a family he never workshops and regional preliminary its social justice work; Curt Tofteland, Chicago Shakespeare’s role in developing knew—each providing a window into bouts. In November, it all culminates in founder and producing director of new productions is largely due to their day-to-day lives in a world on the the Final Bout on the Courtyard Theater Shakespeare Behind Bars; and Haisan T. CST's Creative Producer Rick Boynton. brink of tragedy. Hollander published stage, with students performing scenes, Williams, advocate and past participant in Boynton’s eleven-year tenure focuses on a book chronicling his journey with his plus their own creative mash-ups the Wisconsin-based Shakespeare Prison current and future artistic planning and family’s lost history, and in 2012 Artistic from the canon in a slam-style arena. Project, among others. Williams closed production, as well as the development Director Barbara Gaines, Creative Chicago Shakespeare's commitment the discussion with powerful testimony of all new plays, musicals and adaptations Producer Rick Boynton and playwright to education unites the skills of theater on Shakespeare’s role in his own for Chicago Shakespeare. Karen Hartman began developing his artists and classroom educators to rehabilitation and reentry to society, as well singular story into this world premiere bring Shakespeare to life in the school as the critical importance of arts education play that debuts Upstairs at Chicago curriculum, engaging 40,000 students in prisons and society as a whole. Shakespeare on January 29. and teachers annually.
PHOTOS: CPS Students compete in Battle of the Bard; Panelists Kate Powers, Agnes Wilcox and Haisan T. Williams in Shakespeare in the Criminal Justice System; Lillian Castillo and the cast of Ride the Cyclone, Joseph Hollander courtesy of the Hollander Family. photos by Liz Lauren, Chuck Osgood and Daniel Ribar.
12 Winter 2016 | King Charles III www.chicagoshakes.com 13 INTRODUCING The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare “ located at the famous Navy Pier will be creating one of the most advanced theater spaces in the world. -BUILTWORLD’s Project Innovation”
The Yard will be Chicago Shakespeare’s third year-round venue and, together with its two existing performance spaces, will amplify the Theater’s artistic vision and community impact. Introducing a new concept in theater architecture, the innovative design features a series of mobile “towers," which allow The Yard to be configured in a variety of shapes and sizes, with audience capacities ranging from 150 to 850. The Yard will be realized through funds raised by Chicago Shakespeare’s Our City, Our Shakespeare Campaign, securing capital, artistic and endowment funds.
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A Conversation with the Director
Visit chicagoshakes.com to explore more ideas s the rehearsal process and stories behind the art on CST’s stages. Abegan, King Charles III director Gary Griffin discussed his vision
KING CHARLES III with the staff. Prime Minister. The central conflicts are ignited here in this first scene in very n BY MIKE BARTLETT subtle ways. What I find so fascinating and accomplished is the way in which n DIRECTED BY GARY GRIFFIN How did you first experience this play, and what were n Bartlett establishes the characters, both known and fictionalized, and combines COURTYARD THEATER your first impressions of it? n NOVEMBER 5, 2016- them to tell a powerful story about the challenges of succession in both their JANUARY 15, 2017 I’d heard such great response to the London public and private lives. n 312.595.5600 production, and I was very curious about it as a new n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM How are we to understand this Royal Family? “history” play. Written in blank verse and speculating about the future of the British Monarchy post Queen Bartlett’s ability to dramatize the specificity of the family dynamics among Elizabeth, I was skeptical—plays like this often become them is what I find most compelling. During a time of extraordinary change, we satirical, and exploit rather than humanize their well- see a family struggle to connect and hold itself together. known characters. Then I saw the excellent British A previously And we see the cost of this change in the relationships company perform the play on Broadway and I was singular family between fathers and sons and wives and, in Harry’s case, more than surprised. I was engrossed in the story and the struggle to love someone free from the confinement dazzled by the skill and theatricality of the writing. I becomes a of being a prince. Bartlett is able to find such specific found myself connecting with a family and system of universal one. and personal interactions between them that this family government that previously I’d found remote. becomes familiar to us. A previously singular family Chicago Shakespeare becomes a universal one. Bartlett imagines the most intimate exchanges, Theater Associate Talk about how we first meet these characters and Artistic Director including ones involving the ghost of Princess Diana. Gary Griffin the world that playwright Mike Bartlett establishes. The women play an important role, it seems, in both these spheres of public The play opens in the moments immediately after and private lives. the funeral of Queen Elizabeth. Private and alone in Westminster Abbey, they reflect upon the ceremony There are three extraordinary women in this story. Two are based on women and prepare to meet the public for the first time after we know—Camilla Parker Bowles and Kate Middleton—and the other is a the Queen’s death. We see the characters we know: newly created character, Jess Edwards, whom Harry falls in love with. All three Charles, Camilla, Prince William, Kate Middleton, are strong willed and independent thinkers who challenge and inspire. Their and Prince Harry. We’re also introduced to Bartlett’s outsider perspective is valuable; they’re able to reflect the will of the people, and fictionalized characters, including Tristan Evans, the encourage the men to understand the country’s point of view about the
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monarchy. Camilla is portrayed as a devoted and sympathetic wife, but a fierce make your case at that heightened level. For me, the verse makes everything defender of the new king. Kate Middleton has prescient vision of the events clearer. And because it's contemporary language in this play, there aren't unfolding, and fearlessly challenges Prince William to act. And Jess offers Harry archaic words that people have to get used to, and the verse comes right at a taste of freedom outside the palace and, much like his father did, he pursues you. In auditions when people handled the verse extremely well, it was all so his love at all cost. clear and wonderful to watch. Rhythmically and dramatically, Bartlett’s play feels like Shakespeare: the scenes start high, and they’re taut, with people And, as in Shakespeare, it’s not only the Royals who speak to the current state entering and exiting, just as they do in Shakespeare. of affairs—the people do, as well. What do you most hope the audience takes away with them? It is one of the great strengths of this play. Bartlett shows us characters on the periphery of the story, a palace butler, a newspaper woman, and many others I think it’s the human cost of duty. The Queen has served for over sixty years as who offer the principal characters the view outside the Palace, but also incite a “God-anointed” monarch. Will that belief system be sustained? We watch the them to act. I particularly love when Prince Harry goes incognito into the night family and the political leaders struggle to maintain order—and a way of life— and meets a kebab vendor with a compassionate ear and a sharp political during this time of change. They attempt to put honor and country first. They tongue. Their exchange activates Harry in ways that the gravedigger scene question their own personal beliefs and the value of the Monarchy—and each affects Hamlet. one is shaken to the core of their identity. n
Can you talk about the world that you and Scenic Designer Scott Davis wanted to create in the play’s physical environment?
As we looked at the actual environments in the play—Westminster Abbey and the House of Commons, among others Scott and I were inspired by the Robert Bathurst: fact that many are defined by their When you’re in verse, rectangular shapes. We thought that From Downton Abbey by recreating the spatial dynamics the stakes at that moment of these locations it would make our to Buckingham Palace are extremely high, and thrust configuration uniquely suited to Chicago Shakespeare’s reputation the script. Our hope is to surround the as a world-class theater attracts you have to make your case audience both visually and through the top-notch talent from around the at that heightened level. production’s soundscape so that you'll globe. Best known to American feel that you’re inside these locations, audiences as Sir Anthony Strallan For me, the verse makes and will more intimately experience the from the hit PBS series Downton everything clearer. story. It’s my favorite aspect of directing in Abbey, Robert Bathurst now our Courtyard Theater—you can place an makes his US debut in the title role of King Charles III. He joins the ranks audience squarely inside the story. I hope people feel that they’re in a session of of other acclaimed British actors who have called our stage home, Parliament, as well as in the most intimate rooms of Buckingham Palace. including Simon Callow, Ian McDiarmid and Adrian Lester. Throughout a How does the verse work in this play? distinguished 30-plus year career, Bathurst has performed at the National Theatre (in the West End and on tour), as well as on many popular As in Shakespeare, when you’re in verse in this play, it’s usually at moments of television and films. Just this year, he reprises his role alongside the original heightened, dramatic tension. Because it’s not natural, it’s poetic realism. When cast in a special reunion season of the ITV cult classic Cold Feet. you're in verse, the stakes at that moment are extremely high, and you have to
PHOTOS: (previous page) Robert Bathurst and Gary Griffin in rehearsal; (this page) Robert Bathurst in rehearsal; photos by Liz Lauren
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FEBRUARY 7–MARCH 26, 2017 Lighting Designers Scenic Designer Costume Designer PHILIP ROSENBERG The Bard’s deliciously witty satire about SCOTT DAVIS MARA BLUMENFELD JOEL SHIER young romance crackles under the hand
of former Artistic Director of Canada’s Sound Designers Wig and Make-up Designer Stratford Festival, Marti Maraden. ROB MILBURN RICHARD JARVIE MICHAEL BODEEN
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New York Casting London Casting Production Stage Manager NANCY PICCIONE AMY BALL DENNIS J. CONNERS
based on the screenplay by directed by GARY GRIFFIN Marc Norman + Tom Stoppard adapted for the stage by Lee Hall directed by Rachel Rockwell King Charles III is presented by special arrangement with APRIL 15–JUNE 11, 2017 Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. The Oscar-winning film finds its Gary Griffin and Barbara Gaines lovingly dedicate this production rightful home—on stage!—in this to David Watson (1940-2014) friend and agent. highly anticipated Chicago Premiere. “He sang for the Queen at her Coronation and was the unsung hero of so many artists."
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22 Winter 2016 | King Charles III CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Cast
The Royal Household King Charles III ROBERT BATHURST* Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall KATE SKINNER* William, Duke of Cambridge JORDAN DEAN* Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge AMANDA DRINKALL* Prince Harry ALEC MANLEY WILSON* James Reiss, JONATHAN WEIR* Diane D’Aquila in Elizabeth Rex, photo by Liz Lauren Press Secretary to King Charles III Roberts, Butler at Buckingham JEFF PARKER* Terry, Royal Security GRANT NIEZGODSKI
Ghost SARAH CHALCROFT*
The Government Tristan Evans, Prime Minister SEAN FORTUNATO* Mark Stevens, Leader of the Opposition DAVID LIVELY* Archbishop of Canterbury JEFF PARKER* Sir Gordon, Chief of Defence LAWRENCE GRIMM* Sir Michael, SAM PEARSON Head of Metropolitan Police Speaker of the House LAWRENCE GRIMM* GIVE THE GIFT OF Nick, aide to the Prime Minister GRANT NIEZGODSKI Sarah, aide at 10 Downing JEN JOHANSEN*
The People Jess Edwards RAE GRAY* Paul, a kebab vendor DEMETRIOS TROY* SHAKESPEARE Clive LAWRENCE GRIMM* Couttsey SAM PEARSON Spread holiday cheer Honor someone special Spencer DEMETRIOS TROY* with a GIFT CERTIFICATE with a TAX-DEDUCTIBLE Free Newspaper Woman SARAH CHALCROFT* for world-class theater DONATION in their name TV Producer JEN JOHANSEN* Ensemble SARAH CHALCROFT*, LAWRENCE GRIMM*, JEN JOHANSEN*, GRANT NIEZGODSKI, JEFF PARKER*, SAM PEARSON, TYRONE PHILLIPS, MEGAN STORTI, DEMETRIOS TROY*, JONATHAN WEIR* Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance: Sarah Chalcroft* for Sarah/TV Producer/Ensemble; Jesse Dornan for Roberts/Archbishop of Canterbury/Ensemble, Terry/Nick/Ensemble; Jen Johansen* for Camilla; Jim McCance* for King Charles III; Grant Niezgodski for William, Couttsey/Sir Michael/Ensemble; Jeff Parker* for Clive/Sir Gordon/Speaker of the House/Ensemble, Tristan Evans; Sam Pearson for Prince Harry; Tyrone Phillips for Spencer/Paul/Ensemble; Kate Marie Smith for Ghost/Free Newspaper Woman/ Ensemble; Megan Storti for Catherine, Jess Edwards; and David Turrentine* for Mark Stevens, James Reiss/Ensemble.
MAJOR 2016/17 SEASON *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association. SUPPORTERS The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust www.chicagoshakes.com 25 KING CHARLES III CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Playgoer’s Guide THE STORY Charles, Prince of Wales, has spent his lifetime watching and waiting—watching In addition to the power to give assent to parliamentary bills, the British his mother rule, and waiting for his time to ascend the throne. Only the elderly Monarch is given the power to make peace treaties, declare war, call and among his countrymen can recall a time without their Queen, the longest dissolve Parliament, and appoint government ministers—including the Prime reigning monarch in England’s history. With his mother’s death, the Prince is at Minister. Traditionally a Parliament was dissolved, with elections soon following, last granted his time to rule. only by royal proclamation. It was not until 2015 that a five-year term with scheduled elections was codified by an act of Parliament. Within days of Queen Elizabeth's II death, a new law limiting the freedom of the press is passed by both houses of Parliament and now, as tradition dictates, awaits the Monarch’s signature. But Charles refuses to sign. The ensuing crisis envelops the Royal Family, the government and the country. For the protection THE BLACK SPIDER MEMOS The new king’s refusal to sign a bill would not be the first time that Charles, of the Monarchy’s future, Prince William and Kate implore Charles to see Prince of Wales, had caused a national scandal with his political actions. In reason and to sign the bill. As the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition 2005, a journalist filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for present a united front to preserve the power of Parliament, Camilla defends the release of Prince Charles correspondence with government ministers. In her husband. And Prince Harry, immersed in his own struggle of identity and 2015, after a decade-long legal battle, the British Supreme Court ruled that the personal freedom, falls in love with an artist named Jess, who rejects the letters must be made available to the public. Monarchy’s very existence. The country is thrown into chaos as it rethinks Britain’s unwritten constitution, its traditions of a sovereign’s role and the power The twenty-seven letters released by the Cabinet Office rocked the public. of the officials whom the people have elected. Nicknamed for the Prince’s flowing, “spidery” handwriting, the so-called Black Spider Memos revealed the extent to which Charles, as heir apparent, had for years asserted his political opinions to government ministers. In the letters, GOVERNED BY TRADITION: AN INTRODUCTION TO he writes to government officials of the highest level addressing a series of BRITAIN’S CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY specific concerns, from organic farming to medicine, the environment to British To call Great Britain a “constitutional monarchy” is perhaps misleading to architecture. (In 2010, Prince Charles told an NBC news crew: “I don’t want my an American audience because, unlike many nations, there is no singular grandchildren or yours to come along and say to me, ‘Why the hell didn’t you constitutional document. Instead, the government is guided by the summation come and do something about this?’”). While the content of the letters was of the laws and traditions amassed since 1215 and the signing of the Magna Carta. relatively mundane, their existence dealt a crushing blow to the tradition of political neutrality from the Royal Family. The public was outraged, too, when it At the center of government is the British Parliament, made up of the House of was revealed that the government had spent £400,000 in its attempts to keep Commons—an elected body—and the House of Lords, composed of ecclesiastical the letters secret. leaders and aristocratic nobles, appointed by the Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. Once a new parliament is formed, the leader of the majority party The Black Spider Memos added another scandal to the long list of the Prince’s in the Commons is named Prime Minister, and the leader of the party with the conflicts with the British press. From his highly publicized divorce from second largest number of elected members becomes Leader of the Opposition. Princess Diana, to his love affair and quiet marriage to Camilla, Charles has developed a notorious level of contempt for the prying eyes of tabloids. This In keeping with tradition, the Prime Minister consults with the Monarch as a bill decades-long conflict, coupled with the Prince’s infamously outspoken nature, is debated in the Houses of Parliament; when passed, it is signed into law by inspired playwright Mike Bartlett to create a situation that traps the new king royal assent. While the Monarchy maintains the right to block a bill by refusing between his personal opinions and his political convictions. n to sign (similar to the American President’s veto power), it has not exercised this power since the early eighteenth century. This process of royal assent remains an independent power of the Monarchy, but in modern times, such examples of “Royal Prerogative” are reserved only for emergency situations.
26 Winter 2016 | King Charles III www.chicagoshakes.com 27 CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER PROFILES
Room Shakespeare Project, including Players (TimeLine Theatre); Oliver, State Othello (Desdemona), As You Like It (Celia) Fair (Marriott Theatre); and Meet Me in St. Profiles and Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt). Regional Louis (Drury Lane Theatre). Ms. Gray’s credits include productions with North Broadway credits include The Real Thing Carolina and Michigan Shakespeare Festivals. (Roundabout Theatre Company). Her ROBERT BATHURST Adventure In Another Metropolis Film credits include The View from Tall, regional credits include Slowgirl (Geffen (King Charles III) makes (sparkleDark Theatre). She also appeared in which premiered at the LA Film Festival. Playhouse). Film and television credits his US debut at Chicago Taggart for Scottish Television. Ms. Chalcroft Television credits include Chicago Med and include: Grace and Frankie, Boardwalk Shakespeare Theater. He is co-artistic director of Runcible Theatre the pilot episode of NBC’s web series Empire, CSI: Cyber, Shameless, Chicago is best known in the UK Company. She received her BA in theatre Bobby & Iza. Ms. Drinkall holds a BFA from P.D., Chicago Fire, Betrayal, Adventure for the television series from De Montfort University, UK. the University of Illinois at Urbana- Time, Slice and What’s the Point? Ms. Gray Cold Feet (ITV), which is Champaign. is a graduate of the University of Chicago. enjoying a revival after 13 JORDAN DEAN years, and Downton Abbey (playing Sir (William) makes his SEAN FORTUNATO LAWRENCE GRIMM Anthony Strallan). Theater credits include: Chicago debut at Chicago (Tristan Evans) returns to (Sir Gordon/Clive/Speaker Noises Off, Three Sisters with Kristen Scott Shakespeare Theater. Chicago Shakespeare of the House/ Ensemble) Thomas, Hedda Gabler, The Comedy of Broadway credits include: Theater, where he has returns to Chicago Errors, A Little Hotel on the Side, Getting American Psycho, Cat on appeared in over twenty Shakespeare Theater, Married, The Rover, The Choice, The Nose, a Hot Tin Roof, Mamma productions, including: where he appeared in Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter, The Mia! and Cymbeline. Pericles, Cyrano de The Tempest. Other Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Off-Broadway credits include: Shows for Bergerac, The School for Chicago credits include: Husband, Whipping It Up, Blue/Orange and Days, The New Century (Lincoln Center Lies, Sunday in the Park with George and Trevor (Jeff Award nomination); Solstice, Who Cares? Mr. Bathurst co-devised the Theater); Pump Boys and Dinettes (New Timon of Athens. Other Chicago credits In a Garden, Pumpgirl, Abigail’s Party, staging of Alex by cartoonist Charles York City Center); Macbeth (Manchester include: Death of a Streetcar Named The Meek, The Physicists, Mr. Kolpert, Peattie, which toured Australia, Hong Kong, International Festival/Park Ave Armory); Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Anne Frank, Caine-Mutiny Court Martial (A Red Orchid Singapore, Dubai and the UK. He produced A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classic Stage Hedda Gabler, The Real Thing, Travels with Theatre, founding ensemble member); and co-devised Love, Loss & Chianti, a Company); The Corn Is Green (Williamstown My Aunt, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are 2666 (Goodman Theatre); The Upstairs staging of narrative verse by Christopher Theatre Festival); and As You Like It (The Dead (Writers Theatre); 2666, Measure for Concierge (Goodman Theatre, New Reid with live music and animation. Other Public Theater). Regional credits include Measure (Goodman Theatre); M. Butterfly Stages); My Name Is Asher Lev (TimeLine television credits include: Emma, Poirot, The Heart of Robin Hood (American Repertory (Court Theatre); and productions with Theatre); In the Next Room (or The Vibrator White Teeth, Hornblower, Red Dwarf, Joking Theater) and Romeo and Juliet (Actors Northlight Theatre, Theatre at the Center, Play) (Victory Gardens Theater); Maple and Apart, My Dad’s the Prime Minister, The Odd Theater of Louisville). Film credits include: TimeLine Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Vine, Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (Next Thing, Dracula, Mrs. Brown’s Boys, Wild at Not Fade Away, Thanks for Sharing, Burning Marriott Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Theatre Company); Orlando (Court Heart, Toast of London, Blandings and Blue, Virgin Alexander, Jersey Girls and Our Company and About Face Theatre. Regional Theatre); The Brothers Karamazov, 1984, Hattie. Mr. Bathurst is frequently heard on Little Happiness. Television credits include: credits include productions with: The Old The Naked King (Lookingglass Theatre the radio and audiobooks. His reading of Z: The Beginning, High Maintenance, The Globe, Intiman Theatre, The Duke on 42nd Company); I Never Sang for My Father, Louise Penny’s The Nature of the Beast won Mysteries of Laura, Royal Pains, Show Me a Street and twelve seasons with Peninsula Wolf Lullaby (Steppenwolf Theatre an Anthony Award and was nominated for Hero, Forever, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Players, where he played George in Sunday Company); Apocalyptic Butterflies, an Audie in 2016. Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order. in the Park with George. Film and television Sketchbook (Collaboraction Theatre Mr. Dean received his BFA from Carnegie credits include The Merry Gentleman Company); and The Glass Menagerie SARAH CHALCROFT Mellon University. directed by Michael Keaton and Chicago (Raven Theatre–Jeff Award). Film credits (Ghost/Free Newspaper P.D. Mr. Fortunato has received five Joseph include: Kingfisher, Welcome to Me, Perfect Woman/Ensemble) AMANDA DRINKALL Jefferson Award nominations and an After Manhattan and Cicero in Winter. Television makes her Chicago (Catherine) makes her Dark Award. He will also be seen at CST this credits include Chicago Med and Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare season as Joseph in The Book of Joseph. P.D. (NBC). Mr. Grimm received his BA from debut. Other Chicago Theater debut. Other Kenyon College and M.Ed from DePaul credits include: Chicago credits include: RAE GRAY University. He has trained with the National A Christmas Carol Mary Page Marlowe (Jess Edwards) makes Shakespeare Conservatory. (Goodman Theatre); Scenes from an (Steppenwolf Theatre her Chicago Shakespeare Execution (Runcible Theatre Company); Our Company); Venus in Fur, Theater debut. Other JEN JOHANSEN New Girl and The Dream of the Burning Boy Measure for Measure (Goodman Theatre); Chicago credits include: (Sarah/TV Producer/ (Profiles Theatre). Ms. Chalcroft’s UK credits White Guy on the Bus, Funnyman (Northlight Slowgirl, The Book Thief, Ensemble) makes her include: Purgatorio (The Chocolate Factory); Theatre); Dutchman (American Blues Domesticated, Wedding Chicago debut at 4:48 Psychosis (StoneCrabs); Hedda Gabler Theater); Last Train to Nibroc (Haven Band (Steppenwolf Chicago Shakespeare (Theatre Babel); Transmissions (Birmingham Theatre-Jeff Award, Best Actress); Rest Theatre Company); The Little Foxes, A Theater. Her regional Repertory Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost, (Victory Gardens Theater); Pygmalion (Oak Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); The credits include: The Twelfth Night, Hamlet, As You Like It (British Park Festival Theatre); Great Expectations Real Thing (Writers Theatre); Circle Mirror Mousetrap, The Game's Touring Shakespeare); Queen Margaret, The (Strawdog Theatre Company); Pride and Transformation (Victory Gardens Theater); Afoot, The Syringa Tree, Macbeth, A Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Henry V, Prejudice (Lifeline Theatre); hamlet is dead. The North China Lover (Lookingglass Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for no gravity, The Skriker, Brand, The Love of Theatre Company); Sunday in the Park with Julius Caesar, A Christmas Carol (Indiana Measure, The Tempest, As You Like It (Bard the Nightingale, Pullman, WA (Red Tape George (Ravinia Festival); Inherit the Wind Repertory Theatre); On Clover Road, Mr. in the Botanics); and Vivienne Grout’s Theatre); and sixteen shows with The Back (Northlight Theatre); The Crucible, Cry of Burns: a post-electric play, Vanya and Sonia
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and Masha and Spike (Phoenix Theatre); JEFF PARKER TYRONE PHILLIPS MEGAN STORTI Time Stands Still (Ensemble Theatre (Roberts/Archbishop of (Ensemble) makes his (Ensemble) returns to Cincinnati); God of Carnage, Romeo and Canterbury/Ensemble) Chicago Shakespeare Chicago Shakespeare Juliet (The Human Race Theatre Company); returns to Chicago Theater debut. He is the Theater, where she and The Ladies Man (Geva Theatre Center). Shakespeare Theater, founding artistic director appeared in As You Like Television credits include Chicago Fire where his credits include: of Definition Theatre It. Other Chicago credits (NBC). Ms. Johansen studied at Hanover As You Like It, Cymbeline Company and former include: The Liar (Writers College and the Royal Academy of and Timon of Athens. artistic assistant at Theatre); The Woman in Dramatic Art, and with the SITI Company. Recent Chicago credits include Wonderful Writers Theatre. Chicago acting credits White, The City & The City (Lifeline Town directed by Mary Zimmerman include: A Doll’s House, Genesis, The Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Metropolis DAVID LIVELY (Goodman Theatre); Discord and Mothers Brothers’ Size (Definition Theatre Performing Arts Centre); and Marat/Sade (Mark Stevens) returns to and Sons (Northlight Theatre). Other Company); George Orwell’s 1984 (The Right Brain Project). Regional credits Chicago Shakespeare Chicago credits include: Objects in the (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Stick Fly include productions with: The Old Globe, Theater, where his credits Mirror, Camino Real, Bounce, Turn of the (Windy City Playhouse); and Saturday Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Illinois include: Othello, King Century, Floyd Collins, The House of Martin Night/Sunday Morning (Prologue Theatre Shakespeare Festival, Putnam County Lear, Henry VIII, Henry V, Guerre (Goodman Theatre); The Secret Company at the Steppenwolf Garage). Playhouse and Phoenix Theatre. Ms. Storti Julius Caesar, Timon of Garden (Court Theatre); Samsara (Victory Regional credits include: Assassins, A received her BFA in acting from Illinois Athens, The Madness of Gardens Theater); The Brother/Sister Plays Christmas Carol, A Raisin in the Sun, The State University and an MFA in theatre arts George III, Romeo and Juliet (2005, 2010) (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Days Like Mountaintop (understudy) and Clybourne from The Old Globe/University of San Macbeth, Amadeus, Henry IV in Henry IV Today, Isaac's Eye (Writers Theatre); and Park (understudy) (Milwaukee Repertory Diego Graduate Acting Program. Parts 1 and 2 (at CST and at the Royal Nine (Porchlight Music Theatre, Jeff Theatre). Film and television credits include Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon- Nomination). Regional credits include: Boss, Chicago Justice, Divergent, Gimmick, DEMETRIOS TROY Avon), Much Ado About Nothing, and A Candide (Huntington Theatre Company); Fare Thee Well and the DiGiorno's "Don't (Paul/Spencer/Ensemble) Midsummer Night’s Dream, among others. My Fair Lady (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Settle" commercial. Mr. Phillips studied at returns to Chicago Other Chicago credits include: Carousel 1776 (A.C.T.); Boy Gets Girl (Manhattan Shakespeare’s Globe and was an emerging Shakespeare Theater, (Lyric Opera of Chicago); October Sky, Theatre Club); The American in Me (Magic professional resident at the Milwaukee where his credits include: White Christmas, My Fair Lady, Beauty and Theatre); and Winesburg, Ohio (Kansas Repertory Theatre. Named one of Chicago Henry V, Julius Caesar, the Beast, 1776 (Marriott Theatre); Cabaret, City Repertory Theatre). Television credits Tribune's “Hot New Faces of 2015,” he Timon of Athens, Richard III 1776, Camelot, Anything Goes, My Fair Lady, include: Chicago P.D., Love Is a Four received his BFA in acting from the and Short Shakespeare! The Foreigner (Drury Lane Theatre); and Letter Word, Prison Break and Early University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Romeo and Juliet. Other Chicago credits Hay Fever (Court Theatre). Mr. Lively’s Edition. Mr. Parker received his BFA in include: 2666, The Happiest Song Plays regional credits include the national tour of acting from the University of Southern KATE SKINNER Last, A Christmas Carol, The Seagull, The Twelve Angry Men (Roundabout Theatre California. www.jeffparkeractor.tumblr.com (Camilla) makes her Good Negro (Goodman Theatre); The Company), and productions with: Asolo Chicago Shakespeare Wheel (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory SAM PEARSON Theater debut. Born in Treasure Island (Lookingglass Theatre Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Virginia (Sir Michael/Couttsey/ Chicago, her credits here Company/Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Stage Company, Geva Theatre and The Ensemble) makes his include Doubt and Agnes Inana, Blood and Gifts, Danny Casolaro Kennedy Center. Television credits include: Chicago debut at of God (American Theatre Died For You (TimeLine Theatre); Never the Empire, The Chicago Code, Prison Break Chicago Shakespeare Company). Broadway Sinner (Victory Gardens Theater); Welcome (FOX); What About Joan, Cupid (ABC); and Theater. Touring credits credits include The Graduate and Uncle Yule, Beyond the Score productions of George Washington (CBS). Film credits include Richard in Vanya. Off-Broadway credits include: Haydn, Beethoven, Schoenberg and The include The Opera Lover and Contagion. Richard III and The Tennessee Williams’ 1982 (WalkerSpace); Soldier’s Tale (Chicago Symphony Orchestra); Comedy of Errors (Montana Shakespeare in Honey Brown Eyes, The Mapmaker’s Sorrow Working (Broadway Playhouse); and Awake GRANT NIEZGODSKI the Parks). Regional credits include: A (Clurman Theatre); and Ashes to Ashes and Sing (Northlight Theatre). Regional (Terry/Nick/Ensemble) Christmas Carol, The Home Place, The (Roundabout Theatre Company). National credits include: Julius Caesar, A Midsummer makes his Chicago Sunshine Boys (Guthrie Theater); Of Mice tours include The Graduate and Lend Night’s Dream (Door Shakespeare); The Shakespeare Theater and Men, Good People, The Red Box (Park Me a Tenor. Her most recent regional Boys Next Door (Syracuse Stage); Julius debut. Other Chicago Square Theatre); Courting Harry (History credits include: Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Caesar (Utah Shakespeare Festival); credits include: This (u/s Theatre); and Love and Information (Frank The Alchemist (Shakespeare Theatre King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor Windy City Playhouse); Theatre). Television credits include In an Company); All My Sons (Swine Palace); (Riverside Shakespeare); King Lear and Father of the Bride and Instant (ABC). Mr. Pearson received his BFA Noises Off (Denver Center Theatre); Tartuffe (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). The Odd Couple (Oil Lamp Theater). His in acting from the University of Minnesota/ Rabbit Hole (Cleveland PlayHouse); Film and television credits include: Chicago regional credits include Cyrano de Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program. He Uncle Vanya (Bard SummerScape); Who’s Fire, Mob Doctor, The King, Two Thieves Bergerac (Cincinnati Shakespeare will return to CST this spring for Short Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Syracuse Stage); and Jobless. Mr. Troy holds a BA from Company); Much Ado About Nothing and Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet. The Royal Family (Arena Stage); and DePaul University/Barat College and an The Matchmaker (Indiana Festival Theatre). Ah, Wilderness! (Guthrie Theater). Her MFA from the University of South Carolina. Mr. Niezgodski received his BA in theatre film and television credits include:Down He is an artistic associate at TimeLine Theatre. from Indiana University. the Shore, Mona Lisa Smile, The Rage: Carrie 2, The Affair, Unforgettable, Blue Bloods and all versions of Law & Order numerous times.
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JONATHAN WEIR MIKE BARTLETT (Signature Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof, Ones (Lincoln Center); The Notebooks of (James Reiss/Ensemble) (Playwright) is currently Into the Woods (Muny, St Louis); and Leonardo Da Vinci (Second Stage); Measure returns to Chicago associate playwright at Moonshine (Dallas Theater Center). This for Measure (Public Theater/NYSF); Shakespeare Theater, Paines Plough. In 2011 he spring he will direct Parade at Writers and Homebody/Kabul (BAM). Opera where his credits include was writer-in-residence Theater. Mr. Griffin has won ten Joseph credits include: Lucia di Lammermoor, La Malvolio in the Chicago at the National Theatre, Jefferson Awards for Directing. Sonnambula (Metropolitan Opera); and The Shakespeare in the Parks and in 2007 he was Merry Widow (Lyric Opera of Chicago). Ms. Blumenfeld is the recipient of four Joseph production of Twelfth Pearson Playwright in SCOTT DAVIS (Scenic Designer) has Jefferson Awards, and was honored to be the Night and The Emperor’s New Clothes. Residence at The Royal Court Theatre. designed over twenty productions for Other Chicago credits include: 2666, His play Love,Love,Love won Best New 2012 recipient of the Michael Merritt Award. Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his Candide, The Visit, A Christmas Carol Play in the 2011 Theatre Awards UK, and credits include: Tug of War: Foreign Fire PHILIP ROSENBERG (Lighting Designer) (Goodman Theatre); The Merry Widow his play Cock won an Olivier Award in and Civil Strife, A Q Brothers’ Christmas (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Days Like Today, 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in an returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Carol, Ride the Cyclone, The Little Mermaid, A Little Night Music, The Liar, Arms and the Affiliate Theatre. He won the Writer's Guild where his credits include: Othello, Henry V, Pericles, Seussical, Road Show, Shrek Man, Misalliance, Doctor's Dilemma (Writers Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Gypsy, Julius Caesar (Jeff Award nomination), the Musical, Othello: The Remix (CST, Theatre); Stepping Out (Steppenwolf Talking and the Old Vic New Voices Awards The School for Lies, Sunday in the Park with London, Germany, Edinburgh, South Theatre Company); Billy Elliot, Camelot, for Artefacts. Theater credits include: George (Jeff Award nomination), Beauty Ragtime, The Most Happy Fella (Drury Lane Love,Love,Love, 13 (National Theatre), Korea, Sydney, Poland, Melbourne, Dubai, and the Beast, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theatre); The First and Grand Hotel Decade (co-writer), Earthquakes in London, Abu Dhabi, Auckland), Cadre (CST, South Elizabeth Rex, The Taming of the Shrew, (Marriott Theatre). Broadway credits Cock, Contractions, Artefacts and My Child. Africa, Edinburgh, Vancouver), Beauty Macbeth, Edward II, Amadeus (Jeff Award include Disney’s The Lion King (Minskoff Radio credits on the BBC include: "The and the Beast, Murder for Two and Short nomination) and Cymbeline (Jeff Award Theatre). National tours include Jersey Core," "Heart," "Liam," "The Steps," "Love Shakespeare! productions of Twelfth Night, nomination). Broadway credits include: Boys and The Lion King. Regional credits Contract," "Not Talking" and "The Family A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo The Elephant Man, A Gentleman’s Guide include: Man of La Mancha (Montana Man." Screen credits include Earthquakes and Juliet and Macbeth. Other Chicago to Love and Murder and It’s Only a Play. Shakespeare/Intermountain Opera); Richard III in London and Hometown. Directing credits include productions with: Goodman Mr. Rosenberg has previously served as (Notre Dame Shakespeare); Candide credits include Honest by D.C. Moore. Theatre, Court Theatre, Paramount Theater, associate lighting designer on over thirty- (Shakespeare Theatre Company); and My He is currently under commission from Steppenwolf Garage, Victory Gardens five Broadway productions. Off-Broadway Fair Lady (Skylight Opera Theatre). Mr. Weir Headlong Theatre, Liverpool Everyman and Theater, Drury Lane Theatre, Northlight credits include The Explorer’s Club and . Regional credits include is an adjunct professor in the Department Playhouse, Hampstead Theatre and The Theatre and Windy City Playhouse. Cactus Flower productions with: Kennedy Center, La Jolla of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola Royal Court Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include Ride the Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Guthrie Theater, University Chicago. Cyclone (MCC Theater) and Othello: The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, Huntington GARY GRIFFIN (Director/ The Remix (Westside Theater). Regional ALEC MANLEY WILSON Associate Artistic Theatre, Portland Stage Company, TACT, credits include productions with: Signature Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown (Prince Harry/Fight Director) has directed Theatre, Children’s Theater Company, Utah Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Captain) makes more than twenty Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hartford his Chicago debut at productions at Chicago Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Walnut Stage, George Street Playhouse and Chicago Shakespeare Shakespeare Theater, Street Theater, Clarice Smith Performing Westport Country Playhouse. Theater. Regional credits including: Road Show, include: , Arts Center and Dallas Theater Center. He The Tempest Gypsy, Sunday in the The Light Princess is co-founder of the Chicago-based design JOEL SHIER (Lighting Designer) makes Park with George, Follies, As You Like It, (American Repertory Theater); Othello, firm Aether and Nyx. Mr. Davis received his Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Private Lives, Amadeus, Passion, A Flea in Design for Living (Artists Repertory his MFA from Northwestern University Off-Broadway credits include Fugitive Her Ear, A Little Night Music, Pacific Theatre); King Lear (Portland Actors and serves as adjunct faculty at Columbia Songs. Regional theater credits include: Ensemble); The Art of Racing in the Rain, Overtures, The Herbal Bed and the Short College Chicago. www.scottadamdavis.com Road Show (Signature Theatre); LMNOP Owen Meany's Christmas Pageant (Book-It Shakespeare! productions of A Midsummer (Goodspeed Musicals); Pregnancy Pact Repertory Theatre); Pterodactyls (Theatre Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet. MARA BLUMENFELD (Costume Designer) (Weston Playhouse); and The Memory Vertigo); Biloxi Blues (Profile Theatre); and Recent Chicago credits include Hand to returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater Show (Barrington Stage). Other credits A Midsummer Night's Dream (Original God and Never the Sinner (Victory for her eleventh production, where her include Broadway Bares and Gypsy of Practice Shakespeare). Film credits include Gardens). His Broadway credits include: credits include: Road Show, Sunday in the Year fundraisers for Broadway Cares/ Shared Rooms and Nothing Against Life. Honeymoon in Vegas, The Apple Tree, and the Park with George (2002, 2012), A Equity Fights AIDS. Broadway associate Television credits include: Modern Family The Color Purple. Off-Broadway directing Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like design credits include: Matilda (Tony (ABC); Great News (NBC); and Broad City credits include: seven productions for New It, A Flea in Her Ear (Jeff Award), A Little Award), Ghost (Tony Award nomination), (Comedy Central). Mr. Wilson received his York City Center Encores!, Saved, Beautiful Night Music, Pacific Overtures and Short American Psycho (Tony Award nomination); , , BFA from Western Oregon University, and Thing, and Parade in concert (Lincoln Shakespeare! productions of Romeo and Groundhog Day If/Then The Elephant Man, Finding Neverland, Soul Doctor and his MFA from the A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Center). Mr. Griffin has spent seven seasons Juliet (2003) and A Midsummer Night’s Godspell. Harvard University. at the Stratford Festival of Canada, where Dream (2001–2003). Other Chicago his credits include: West Side Story, credits include productions with: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Camelot and Antony and Cleopatra. At the ROB MILBURN AND MICHAEL BODEEN Court Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre (Sound Designers) return to Chicago Lyric Opera his credits include: The Merry Company (ensemble member). Her New Shakespeare Theater, where their credits Widow, The Mikado and Oklahoma. Recent York credits include: Metamorphoses (Circle include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The regional credits include: Road Show in the Square, Second Stage); The Glorious Madness of George III, Private Lives and
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Amadeus, among others. Broadway credits Collective); In the Heat of the Night Project). Off-Broadway credits include Clay and Constellations. She cast the original include music composition and sound for: (Shattered Globe Theatre); The Compass (Lincoln Center Theater) and Lookingglass productions of Proof and The Tale of the The Miracle Worker, One Flew Over the (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); and Posh Alice (New Victory Theater). Regional Allergist’s Wife on Broadway and Off- Cuckoo's Nest and The Speed of Darkness; (Steep Theatre). Regional credits include: credits include: Clay (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Broadway as well as their National Tours. music for My Thing of Love; and sound for: Death of a Salesman, The African Company Kansas City Rep) and Lookingglass Off-Broadway credits include Incognito, The Larry David’s Fish in the Dark, This Is Our Presents Richard III (American Players Alice (Alliance Theatre). Mr. Conners is a Explorers Club, Choir Boy, The Whipping Youth, Of Mice and Men, Who's Afraid of Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire, The graduate of Northwestern University, where Man, Ruined, Equivocation, The World of Virginia Woolf, Superior Donuts, reasons Island (American Repertory Theater); he has served as adjunct lecturer in stage Extreme Happiness and Of Good Stock. Prior to be pretty, A Year with Frog and Toad, Love’s Labor’s Lost (Actors Theatre of management and currently serves as a to working at Manhattan Theatre Club, she King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Louisville); Around the World in 80 Days stage management mentor. was a member of the casting staff at the Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath. Off- (Centerstage/Kansas City Repertory); New York Shakespeare Festival for ten years, Broadway credits include music or sound and Mamma Mia! (National Tour and Las KEVIN GREGORY DWYER (Assistant Stage where she worked on Shakespeare in the for: Guards at the Taj, Sticks and Bones, Vegas). Ms. Breneman is an associate Manager) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Park and numerous productions at the Public How I Learned to Drive, Inked Baby, After artist at TimeLine Theatre Company and a Theater, where his credits include Othello Theatre. She cast the American actors for Ashley, The Notebooks of Leonardo da production affiliate of Lookingglass Theatre and CPS Shakespeare! A Midsummer the first two seasons of theBridge Project, Vinci, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space, Marvin's Company. She received an MA from The Night’s Dream. Other Chicago credits produced by BAM and the Old Vic London. Room; sound for: The Spoils, Family Week, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama include: First Look 2015: I'll Get You Back She is a graduate of the Yale School of reasons to be pretty, Jitney, Juvenilia, and a BFA from NYU. Again, This Is Our Youth, Leveling Up, Drama, and a member of the Casting Society Brundibar, The Pain and the Itch; and music Lord of the Flies (Steppenwolf Theatre of America. direction and sound for Ruined. Mr. Milburn KATHRYN WALSH (Verse Coach) returns to Company); and Dutchman/TRANSit and Mr. Bodeen have created music and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where her (American Blues Theater). National tour AMY BALL (London Casting) is head of sound at resident theaters throughout credits include: Chicago Shakespeare in the credits include the first and second national casting at the Royal Court Theatre in America, frequently with Steppenwolf Parks production of Twelfth Night, Short tours of The Book of Mormon. Regional London, where she casts all productions Theatre Company, as well as internationally. Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, The Comedy credits include: The Two Gentlemen of for the theater upstairs and downstairs. www.milbomusic.com of Errors, Henry VIII, The Feast and The Verona, Coriolanus (Commonwealth Recent productions include: Hangmen, Madness of George III (assistant director). Shakespeare Company); Betrayal, Private Cyprus Avenue, X, Linda, Liberian Girl, The RICHARD JARVIE (Wig & Make-up Designer) Chicago directing credits include: Women Lives, Captors (Huntington Theatre Twits, Violence and Son and How to Hold returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Beware Women, Richard II, As You Like Company); Shooting Star and The K of D Your Breath. Previous productions at the where he designed wigs and make-up It (Two Pence Theatre Company); James (Adirondack Theatre Festival). Mr. Dwyer Royal Court include: Constellations, Jumpy, for the inaugural season and many of the and the Giant Peach (Filament Theatre); received his BA in stage/production Posh, The River; Love and Information, company’s productions at the Ruth Page breaks & bikes (Pavement Group); and management from Emerson College. In Basildon, Love, Love, Love, Choir Boy, Theatre. Mr. Jarvie spent twenty-eight assistant director on Dead Man's Cell Chicken Soup with Barley and Jerusalem. years with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Phone, When the Messenger Is Hot and the BOB MASON (Artistic Associate/Casting including eleven as the wig master and world premiere of August: Osage County Director) is in his seventeenth season as RICK BOYNTON (Creative Producer) focuses make-up designer. Other Chicago credits (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Regional CST’s casting director, where his credits on current and future artistic planning and include productions with: Goodman credits include The Make-Out Queen (The include over one hundred productions and production, as well as the development Theatre, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Common Tongue at Ars Nova) and Island thirty-four plays in Shakespeare’s canon. of all new plays, musicals and adaptations (Orfeo Group). Ms. Walsh received Theatre Company and Drury Lane Theatre of Slaves In addition to numerous productions with for CST, including: the upcoming world Oakbrook. Regional and international her MFA from Northwestern University Barbara Gaines, other productions of premiere The Book of Joseph, Ride the credits include productions with: the Tom and a BA from Harvard University. She note include: a host of Sondheim musicals Cyclone (CST, MCC); Othello: The Remix Patterson Theatre, Stratford Festival, teaches and serves as program mentor in directed by Gary Griffin;Rose Rage: Henry VI, (Chicago, London, Germany, Edinburgh, Ontario (supervisor of wigs and make- Northwestern’s MFA Directing Program. Parts 1, 2 and 3, directed by Edward Hall; South Korea, Sydney, Poland, Melbourne, up) Guthrie Theater (wig master) Alliance and , directed by The Molière Comedies Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Auckland, National Theatre and McCarter Theatre. Opera DENNIS J. CONNERS (Production Stage Brian Bedford. Additional Chicago credits Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of credits include productions with: Atlanta Manager) is a resident production stage include the precursor to Road Show, entitled New Musicals 2015, Off-Broadway); Sense Opera, San Francisco Opera, Hawaii Opera, manager at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Bounce (Goodman Theatre and the Kennedy Chicago Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of where he has stage managed over ten Center for the Performing Arts), as well as and Sensibility (CST, The Old Globe); Saint Louis and the Spoleto Festivals of productions, including: Othello, Ride the productions for Asolo Repertory Theatre, Cadre (co-director) (CST, Johannesburg, Charleston, South Carolina and Italy. Cyclone, King Lear, The Little Mermaid, A Northlight Theatre and Arena Stage. Prior Grahamstown, Edinburgh, Vancouver); Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol and Othello: to casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a Funk It Up About Nothin’ (CST, Edinburgh, EVA BRENEMAN (Dialect Coach) returns The Remix. Other Chicago credits include: Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and Australian tour, London); A Flea in Her to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where Appropriate, Disconnect (Victory Gardens has been a visiting educator for the School Ear (CST, Williamstown Theatre Festival); her credits include: Tug of War: Foreign Theater); Freud’s Last Session (Mercury at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, The Three Musketeers (CST, Boston, Fire and Civil Strife, Henry V, The Merry Theater, CRC Productions); Mr. Chickee’s the University of Illinois at Chicago and London); The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Wives of Windsor, Elizabeth Rex and The Funny Money, The Houdini Box, Goodnight Northwestern University. Adventures of Pinocchio (now licensed by Madness of George III. Other Chicago Moon (Chicago Children’s Theatre); Ethan Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatricals); credits include: One Man Two Guvnors Frome, Peter Pan: A Play, Lookingglass NANCY PICCIONE (New York Casting) is the Murder for Two (at CST, followed by New (Court Theatre), Arcadia (Writers Theatre); Alice, Fedra: Queen of Haiti, The Arabian Director of Casting at Manhattan Theatre York and national tour) and The Feast: an Chimerica (TimeLine Theatre Company); Nights, Clay (Lookingglass Theatre Club. Broadway credits include Heisenberg, intimate Tempest (in collaboration with Blood Wedding (Lookingglass Theatre Company); What Once We Felt (About The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, Time Stands Redmoon). Former artistic director of the Company); 2666 (Goodman Theatre); Face Theatre); Dangerous Beauty and Still, Top Girls, Shining City, The Assembled Marriott Theatre and multiple Jeff Award- A Splintered Soul (Chicago Commercial In the Bubble (American Music Theatre Parties, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina
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winning actor, he has starred in productions CRISS HENDERSON nationally, including CST’s production of (Executive Director) A Flea in Her Ear as Camille (Jeff Award, Chicago Shakespeare After Dark Award). As casting director/ Theater’s executive associate at Jane Alderman Casting, director, has produced projects included: the television series Early CST’s past twenty-seven Edition, Missing Persons, Untouchables and seasons, and developed GET SOCIAL ER; the filmsWhile You Were Sleeping and the citywide, yearlong #cstCharlesIII Hoodlum, among others; and numerous celebration through 2016 of Shakespeare’s national tours. Mr. Boynton has lectured at legacy, Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Under his alma mater Northwestern University, his leadership, CST has become one of the and is past president of the board of the nation’s leading regional theaters and one National Alliance for Musical Theatre. of Chicago's most celebrated cultural organizations, honored with the 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre,
BARBARA GAINES as well as multiple Laurence Olivier and (Artistic Director/ Joseph Jefferson Awards. Mr. Henderson Founder/Carl and has garnered multiple honors, including: Marilynn Thoma the 2013 Cultural Innovation Award from Endowed Chair) founded the Chicago Innovation Awards; the Arts Chicago Shakespeare Administrator of the Year by Arts Theater, where she has Management Magazine at the Kennedy directed nearly 50 Center and the Chevalier de L'Ordre des productions of Shakespeare plays. Honors Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of include: the 2008 Tony Award for Culture of France. He was named among Outstanding Regional Theatre; the the top 40 business people under the age prestigious Honorary OBE (Officer of the of 40 in Crain’s Chicago Business. He Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) serves as president of the Producers’ in recognition of her contributions Association of Chicago-area Theaters and strengthening British-American cultural is director of the MFA/Arts Leadership relations; and Joseph Jefferson Awards for Program, a two-year graduate-level Best Production (Hamlet, Cymbeline, King curriculum in arts management training Lear and The Comedy of Errors), and for created through a joint partnership Best Director (Cymbeline, King Lear and between Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Comedy of Errors). Ms. Gaines has The Theatre School at DePaul University. Whether you’re sitting in the Theater, directed at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, Lyric stuck on the El or relaxing at home, Opera of Chicago and The Old Globe in San Diego. As the cornerstone production of share King Charles III with your friends! Shakespeare 400 Chicago, the 2016 international celebration of Shakespeare’s legacy, she created a world premiere FOLLOW US @chicagoshakes Shakespeare history cycle, Tug of War, including the rarely staged Edward III. Gaines received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Birmingham LIKE US /chicagoshakespeare (UK), the University Club of Chicago’s Cultural Award, the Public Humanities Award from the Illinois Humanities Council VISIT US www.chicagoshakes.com and the Spirit of Loyola Award. Ms. Gaines serves on The Globe Council (Shakespeare’s Globe, London). TAG US @chicagoshakes
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The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers of this The Director is a member of the STAGE production are represented by United Scenic Artists, DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS Local USA-829 of the IATSE. SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.
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Visit chicagoshakes.com Families, writes the terrific critic Felicity Rosslyn, are to explore more ideas and stories behind the the one phenomenon “on which we are all experts.” art on CST’s stages. That’s why plays so often center on them. For all of their stoic stepmother and their varied consorts: William’s wife; Harry’s girlfriends. us, the familial is so familiar—with its tussles, terrors, Bartlett offers us, as Shakespeare offered his first audiences, the tantalizing tenderness—that the playwright can start from there and pleasures of an unveiling—the sense that we are witnessing, as spectators, scenes take us anywhere. of family life about which till now we could only speculate. KING CHARLES III In King Charles III, Mike Bartlett shows us a family we n BY MIKE BARTLETT Bartlett’s game seems differently timed, as signaled both know and don’t know: the British Royals. And in the n DIRECTED BY GARY GRIFFIN Bartlett offers us, as by the quietly surprising Roman numeral in the n COURTYARD THEATER zone between our copious, almost ineluctable knowing show’s title, and in the subtitle that has sometimes n NOVEMBER 5, 2016– (all that coverage, all that publicity, all that gossip) and Shakespeare offered followed that III: “A Future History Play.” Shakespeare JANUARY 15, 2017 our not knowing (this family’s famous self-containment, wrote almost invariably of the past; in his time it was n 312.595.5600 its aspirationally tight but intermittently unraveling his first audiences, the n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM effectually illegal to represent present royalty on the control of its narratives), Bartlett has concocted tantalizing pleasures stage. Bartlett, by contrast, begins with the funeral something wonderful. of an unveiling of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-ruling monarch in Wonderful in part because it is so Shakespearean. England’s history. What we watch, then, is not the Shakespeare’s core trick, in his history plays and now, but an indefinite, perhaps imminent, next. By this trick of timing, Bartlett elsewhere, derives from his understanding of how playfully compounds the sense of uncertainty intrinsic to celebrity in general. We inextricably the shape of family and the fate of country have long guessed at who these people are, what they’re like. We’re now invited can be enmeshed. In crookback Richard’s feelings toward to guess at what may happen to them, what they may do with and to each other. his parents and his brothers, in Prince Hal’s toward his In truth, though, Bartlett’s and Shakespeare’s time games overlap. Both father, in Hamlet’s toward his father, mother and uncle, playwrights orchestrate for their audiences a kind of time travel: where Bartlett Stuart Sherman, who can lie the destiny, for generations, of all the families projects the present into the near(ish) future, Shakespeare liked to palimpsest contributes this essay, who make up the nation. Within our own more ordinary is a Professor of English the past onto the pressing present. But Bartlett finds one further way to traffic in at Fordham University families, the tensions often feel epic, cataclysmic time’s suppleness: he builds the play around new shifts in media, which produce and the author of Telling overwhelming. Shakespeare’s plays often lend credence to Time: Clocks, Diaries, and new shifts in timing, from the daily newspaper to the instantaneous text or English Diurnal Form, that commonplace emotional conviction. They refigure it Tweet. The plot pivots on a question about the press: should the government, in 1660–1785. as historic truth. order to protect its citizens’ privacy, restrict the freedom of the media to purvey In King Charles III, Bartlett plays a comparable game communications originally private or photographs clandestinely captured— up close. We are after all contemporaries of these royal hacked phone texts of a teenaged murder victim; scandalous photos of a private figures; we’ve each absorbed, whether deliberately or not, party? The Prime Minister and Parliament say yes; King Charles, despite the some sense of the complex crossplay at work among the press’s lifelong incursions into his private life (amorous phone calls included), aging Prince, his dead Princess, his half-orphaned heirs, says no. Soon enough, the dispute opens new fault lines within the Royal Family.
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As well it might. Even in ordinary families these days, the rapid-fire permutations of our media can function as a kind of time travel: children and grandchildren, ever literate in the chimeric operations of the latest apps, can strike their more bewildered forebears as living already in some future epoch, and on another planet. By setting his whole play to the iambic music of Shakespearean verse, Bartlett contrives to stretch this sense of time travel across centuries, as we hear the characters discuss the newest technologies By setting his whole play in the oldest English rhythms we know. to the iambic music of What’s at stake, Bartlett implies throughout, is our human knowledge, of ourselves and others. Shakespearean verse, At one point in Richard II, the Shakespeare play Bartlett contrives to from which Bartlett took his fullest template, the titular king is asked whether he is willing stretch this sense of to resign his crown, and answers in words of time travel across agonized ambivalence: “Ay, no. No, ay.” On the page those syllables read merely as oscillating centuries, as we hear yeas and nays. But on the stage, they sound YOUR GIFT... out another, darker possibility: “ I know no I.” I the characters discuss Brings to life extraordinary productions no longer know myself. · the newest technologies Underwrites award-winning education programs Bartlett echoes this dark possibility in his play’s · in the oldest English whole design. King Charles, his younger son · Tours Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks, free for all Prince Harry, and Harry’s girlfriend Jess, victims rhythms we know. Imports the leading international artists of our time of the media, strive mightily and precariously ·
to know themselves. (“What am I?” Charles asks repeatedly; his several Karen Aldridge and Steven Sutcliffe of in War: Tug Civil Strife. photo by Liz Lauren soliloquies track his efforts to find out.) Kate and William (her at times eager, at times reluctant pupil), masters of the new media, seek instead by ingenious means to promote themselves. From the contrast between self-knowledge and THREE EASY WAYS TO MAKE YOUR GIFT self-promotion, Bartlett weaves the play’s key struggle. Both in families and in www.chicagoshakes.com/support a wider world ever more imbued with morphing media and novel tactics for deploying them, “I know no I” may prove the most haunting, and most accurate, 312.667.4952 proposition of all. n Chicago Shakespeare Theater 800 East Grand on Navy Pier Chicago, IL 60611 42 Winter 2016 | King Charles III www.chicagoshakes.com 43 CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER $25,000–$49,999 Northern Trust (continued) Nuveen Investments PNC Community Partners Prince Charitable Trusts Razny Jewelers Chicago Shakespeare Theater is honored by the support of these leading S&C Electric Company business and civic partners, whose generosity demonstrates a commitment to Shakespeare in American Communities enriching our vibrant Chicago community. We are pleased to recognize these Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP The Sun-Times Foundation/ organizations for their dedication to artistic excellence, innovative approaches The Chicago Community Foundation to enhancing education and impactful community outreach initiatives. Anonymous
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Naomi and Jerry Senser Michael Stieber Joanna B. Vanni Rev. Linnea Wilson Beverly and Stacey Street Mr. and Mrs. Christine Anne Wilson Gregory Serviss Andrew Sund Ronald Vavrinek Fritz Wilson Tribute Program David J. Shanahan Art and Rita Sussman Tina Vulgaris Martin Wojcik Shelly Shannon Rachael Swann and Albert and Arlene Wagner Mr. Leonard Wojtecki Myron and Beverly Shapiro William Fancher Lillian Walanka Dorothy and Eric Wolff Mrs. Yaira A. Shapiro Linda Swanson Seely Lulu Sarah Wolff and An honor or memorial gift is a distinctive way to honor the memory of friends Bill and Harlan Shropshire Elizabeth Swider Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace Joel Handelman and family or pay tribute to milestone celebrations. For more information Gerri Shute Judy Swiger Rev. Mark J. Walter Cindy Wolfson Bruce and Sarane Siewerth Natilie Szwarek Sandra Walters Patrick and regarding this program, please contact Brooke Flanagan in the Advancement Ron Sims Christina Marie Taufen Kevin and Anne Warnke Patrice Wooldridge Office at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]. Mark and Alison Skertic Louise I. Tausche Mel and Tamara Waskin Bruce W. Worthel and Barbara Puechler and Mr. and Mrs. James Tharin David Wasserman, M.D Barbara G. Young Wesley G. Skogan Cheryl Thaxton Dr. Russell and Marie Watt Dale W. Wyant Reflects gifts received between October 10, 2015–October 10, 2016 Terry Slater Paul and Linda Dr. Carol Weinberg and Julie Yamaguchi Abigail Sloane Thistlethwaite Mr. Harold J. Winston Scott Yanklowitz Mary Kay and Floyd Thompson Patricia and Michael Kevin Yaussy Frank Slocumb Rita Thomson and B. Weinstein Christine and MEMORIAL GIFTS Ms. Suzanne Smart John Giannini Darla and Thomas Young FOR SARAJANE AVIDON Kittie and Bill Devers Carole and Gordon Segal Madison R. and Ms. Virginia Tobiason Roger Weissenberg Jamie G. Zelvin AND FELIX SHUMAN Norman J. Dinkel Teri and Steve Barnett Carolyn J. Smith Mary Tobin and Jami Wenckunas Donald Zimmerman, M.D. Sara Segal Loevy and Steven R. William Rattner Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Perlman Richard and Sharlene Smith David Schenker William and Mary Wenzel Mr. and Mrs. Loevy Vicki and Thomas Horwich Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Abigail Spreyer Elizabeth and Patricia Wess Laurence W. Zoeller Stephen and Connie King Lon and Dick Behr McKenna John and Lenette Robert Tompkin Susan and David Westby Charles and Gail Zugerman Richard and Betty Seid Bill and Judi Goldman Cheryl and Robert Gilhooley Staudinger Ms. Laura Torphy Ross and Mark Zumbach Dick Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Virginia and Gary Gerst Bill and Paige Steers Celeste Troon Elizabeth Wheeler Anonymous (15) Ehrlichman Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Kent Steven Steiber Coleman and Lisa Wiersma FOR ELIZABETH BOHNE Marc and Angela Levenstein Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Seth Stephens Deborah Tuggle Jessica and COLLINS Judy Isenberg Manning Rhonda and Gary Stern The Vales Family Cristine Williams Collin and Andrew Levy Lorraine and Mickey Jaffe David and Marilyn Wittenberg Nancy S. Hart and Jeff and Nancy Van Winkle Jan Williams Marion Adelman Mr. Michael Brainin FOR LOIS DUNN Mr. and Mrs. Don Horwitz Michelle and Gerald Gordon Kathy Dunn Theodore and Harriette Michael and Ruth Sklar Perlman Mr. and Mrs. Warren and Joan FOR ARLENE FIELDSTEEL John and Judy Keller Eagle V.E. Hicks Joan and William J. Brodsky Lawrence Gordon FOR JACK KARP Karen and Herb Wander Sheila and Harvey Medvin Mr. and Mrs. Wallace J. Sandra M. Lyons FOR ABBY S. MAGDOVITZ- Stenhouse, Jr. Michael Goodman WASSERMAN Meredith and Roger Harris Timothy A. Gianos David Wasserman, M.D PRODUCERS’ GUILD AT Sara Segal Loevy Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Swett CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER The Producers' Guild is a leadership group, HONORARY GIFTS shaping the future of Chicago Shakespeare FOR JASON HARRINGTON FOR BETSY AND JACK KARP FOR CARL AND MARILYNN AND AUDIO-DESCRIBED Gail and Lewis Segal THOMA Theater by introducing new audiences PERFORMANCES The Patterson Family FOR CHASE LEVEY Paul Rink to CST's extraordinary productions and The Howard and Kennon FOR PAM AND DOUG FOR PHILIP AND LA ENGEL McKee Charitable Fund WALTER World's Stage series, promoting family and Diana F. Blitzer Lanny and Terry Passaro FOR MARK OUWELEEN arts-in-education programs and supporting FOR HARVE FERRILL AND SARAH HARDING Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Willmott Matthew Smart key Theater initiatives. Members also: FOR BARBARA GAINES FOR JANE SAHLINS Lucy Butler Shelley Gorson and Alan Macki and Paul Ellenbogen Salpeter Philip Matsikas • Participate in exclusive CST Events FOR ROBERT SANDERS Jonathan Weiss Barbara J. Anderson • Enjoy complimentary VIP ticketing FOR CRISS HENDERSON FOR STEVEN SOLOMON and interval service Faye Marlowe Signorelli Consulting Group Anonymous
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